This is a good example of the logical fallacy called “equivocation,” which means using the same word in two different senses. For example, “Good steaks are rare these days, so be sure not to get yours overcooked.” Scientists should question …
Category: Renewables – Science
“Real America Is Done with COVID-19”
Almost half the country lives in a fairyland in which reason and intelligence have ceased to matter. The irony here, of course, is that Jordan is referring to the anti-vaxxers as “real America,” where the precise opposite is the case. …
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Predictably, Oklahoma Announces Deeper Cuts To Education
Oklahoma should cut its educational programs like a starving man needs to go on a diet. It’s already among the states in which Trump did best; it’s hard to imagine why these people need to become even more ignorant. Coincidentally, …
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COVID Disinformation
A reader sent me the chart here, noting that Facebook had labelled it “false information.” He adds, “I guess they don’t like the fact that people are indeed surviving COVID.” I respond: I think the reason that FB called this false …
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Buckminster Fuller on Technology
No one can say precisely where our civilization began to experience the surge in technology that we’re now enjoying. A case could be made for the electrification of essentially everything in our lives, which happened when people like Tesla, Edison, …
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Pastor John Pavlovitz: Why the Right Hates Fauci
Here’s the personable and astute pastor John Pavlovitz, explaining the seething hatred that Republicans have for Dr. Anthony Fauci. This is an excellent piece, and I don’t want to give anything away, but let me offer a hint: it’s not …
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Anti-Science and the Pandemic
A learned economist said recently, “We know that COVID-19 is temporary, but we also know that it will cause permanent effects.” Interesting. It doesn’t seem certain that humankind will be able to put pandemics and their variants behind us anytime in …
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Two Viewpoints on Education
A reader sent me this, to which I respond: Keep in mind that there IS an alternative to school. It’s called social isolation, illiteracy, unemployability, impoverishment, and QAnon. Note that I didn’t say it was a VIABLE alternative.
Who Is This Dr. Fauci?
This is what the Trumpers/anti-vaxxers believe. Seems a bit unlikely to me.
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Anti-Vaxxers and Our Society
Here’s an anonymous free-form poem about the pandemic and the anti-vaxxers. Poignant, to say the very least. “We wanted to help people We were smart and driven We loved science and physiology, humans and disease So we made a commitment …
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